Anne Wright
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The life and work of a major American poet described in his own words.
"There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter-the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate certain ideas, very precisely-if one is lucky in one's thoughts," wrote James Wright, one of the great lyric poets of the last century, in a letter to a friend. A Wild Perfection is a compelling...